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[gnappi]

I joined about a year ago and just lurked watching for the acidic replies typical on other sites and since I had found few to none so I decided to get active. This site has much more light than heat, which I like.

 

That said, I'm a mature fisherman and I literally grew up fishing in some of the best trout streams (in Ulster county) in the United States. We had a home in New York's watershed / reservoir system and I have fished from Suffolk, Queens, and through Westchester counties in the south to Herkimer county / Glens Falls, The Glen, and North Creek areas in the Adirondaks where the Hudson river is but a stream. Any Waaayyy up northerners in here?

 

I almost forgot... I think I ate more trout than anyone on the planet, the "stockies" didn't last long and the wary natives were challenging, but they all fell to a well placed home tied fly. Back then, there was no size minimum or maximum size, or IIRC even a catch limit but we never took immature fish, or very large ones and limited our catch of rainbows, and brownies to one or two 12" or so fish per day.  My friends dad was the local game warden and we didn't dare to run afowl of him or the single sheriff in our town which had no traffic lights, three (or was it four?) stop signs  and only three blocks of "town"

 

In 1977 I moved to south Florida for good. It was area code 305 from Miami to Orlando, lots of change since then. 

 

Anyway, nowadays I spend much of my retirement fishing for what appears to be dwindling stocks of LMB and even the fairly new residents the beautiful Peacock bass. To help the Native LMB and "naturalized" Peacocks get a better chance at keeping their tenuous toehold at survival my fishing bud (and hundreds more) and I kill as many snakeheads (SH) as we can.

 

We fish all electric 10' and 12' tin (aluminum) boats in narrow mostly un-fished hydrilla / eel grass choked canals (love those 3 bladed Kipawa props) and we can sneak right up to where the wary SH lie and take them away.

 

This is a really well done site, I admire the acidic comment restraint, and overall helpful nature of it. Thanks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Log Catcher]

Hello and welcome to the forum. Glad you enjoy it. I have picked up a lot of good info here.

[A-Jay]

Hello Gary and Welcome to Bass Resource ~

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[gnappi]

Sdoolittle, I like your sig file.

 

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I can't STAND the plethora of commercials which use the term "Deserve" as if breathing entitles you to just about everything imaginable ? 

 

 

 

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[the reel ess]

Welcome! Yeah, this site is the best, bar none. I used to be on the Bill Dance Outdoors board, but it dried up. You could ask a question in a new thread and someone might answer it a few days later and there was some acidic snark. Once I discovered this one I never went back.

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